The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#182 மானே தேனே கட்டிப்புடி
(உதயகீதம், 1985 , ஜானகியுடன்)

Based on the info we got from Murali sir, each song of UG got penned by a different lyricist. And, we have the mAnE thEnE thingy in two songs So, the statement of 'mAnE / thEnE ellAm pOttukkagna' seems to be the norm of TFM during IR's peak. (May be even before and after that time period).

One imaginary conversation during UG composing (assuming the politician producer was present)...

rAsA to lyricist # 1 : aNNE, indha meterkku oru pAttu
lyricist #1: mAnE thEnE kattippudi
producer : pramAdham, ippadiyE irukkattum

rAsA (thinking - 'illEnnA Auto varum') - AmANNE romba kachchidhamA irukku

rAsA to lyricist # 2: idhu oru menmaiyAna thAlAttu aNNE
lyricist # 2 : thEnE thenpANdi meenE
producer : deiveegam, keep it!

rAsA (thinking - 'eppudi ellArum sathi paNrAngO, hmmm, EdhAchchum instrumentalla shape paNNa vENdiyathu thAn') - nallA irukku saar...

Before next song, during the interval, meets the lyricist # 3 in the rest room, 'sAr, eppadiyAchchum indha mAn thEn illAma ezhudhunga sAr'

Back to composing...

rAsA to L #3 : idhu dhAn tune

L # 3 : pAdu nilAvE thEn kavidhai

rAsA (thalaiyai pichchufying, but thinking of auto)...romba nallArukku sAr

Later asks L #3, 'nAn un kitta enna sonnEn'.

L #3 replies 'neenga sonnadhukkappuRam producer vandhu 'mAn' or 'thEn' illAtti pinneeruvEnnu solleettAr, nAn enna paNNa'


Interesting song, with the sweet mridhangam arrangement. Funny to watch on screen, what a number of ways to make fun of police in movies

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After posting the above, got reminded that the sangeetha mEgham also does 'thEn' sindhal

[Murali Srinivas]

App, thanks. You are right. Pagal Nilavu came out only in July 1985.

But Plum, if you talk about Modern dress then Revathy was wearing that even in Oru Kaidhiyin diary that came out during Pongal 1985. Remember பொன் மானே கோபம் ஏனோ song sequence?

App, மானே தேனே கட்டிப்புடி had that inimitable SPB touch when after the rendering of the charanam he would sing the pallavi again with the words getting pronounced as மாமன் தோளை தொட்டு கடி.

Regards

[baroque]

மானே தேனே கட்டிப்புடி
மாமன் தோள தொட்டுக்கடி ...




I love Raja's playful mirudhangam.

Raja conjures the upbeat, playful mood with all his wind instruments, claps, chorus group singing etc...
good old ராஜா's குட்டி குட்டி flute calls

ஹே, ஜானு.....யு ஆர் sexy !


Wanna double the pleasure ... listen

முல்லை அரும்பே மெல்ல....தனிக்காட்டு ராஜா too.
tantalizing composition by Vasu & Janu.

Same jolly mood mirudhangam-violin Ilayaraja's special.


சூப்பர் app _eng!

middle of the day, இந்த மாதிரி ஒரு பாட்டு கேட்டா போதுமே....energy பறக்கும் rest of the day!

vinatha.

[groucho070]

app Scenario very plausible. Biggest abuser of "mAnE, tEnE, pon_" has to be Valee. Not sure now who wrote the above ones, but later when Valee was heavily used (post Vairamuthu break-up), those words were everywhere.

[KV]

App, lovely posts on some real gem of songs. And that mAnE-thEnE stuff was . Idhukku sila pEru rAsAva vEra erachchu kottuvAnga. (of course, we really don’t know what the truth is)
The college fest organizer (especially the main inter-college one) used to be the most sought-after post in my college. This generally led to several inter-dept scuffles, drunken brawls with hockey bats, clubs and stuff. In the first year I quite din’t understand the madness behind it. Then, some days after the fest, I saw the organizer dude riding a brand new bike! “There goes our fest fund” a friend commented. And this could be witnessed every year – upgrading of bikes, phones, watches, etc – ketta pasanga, all nasty vasool rajas. And amidst all this, we guys used to, like ambi pasangals, break our heads to organize the music shows, dumbcharades, quiz, etc., the prizes mostly being invaluable certificates! . In one of the rock competitions that we’d organized, the winners were gifted 1500 bucks as cash price. The band promptly rejected it saying it wouldn’t even be enough for their drinks that night! And the fest organizer sported a brand new gold bracelet that year

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nanRi Murali sir, baroque, groucho & KV!

Remember பொன் மானே கோபம் ஏனோ song sequence?

adhlayum mAnE

KV,
From what I've seen/heard during our days , none of those office bearers enriched themselves but spent all the extra money lavishly for their mates. (After the Festember in our final year, there was a party behind the Sapphire hostel. It was reported that IMFL was kept in "buckets" for the Attam-pAttam of the crowd.)

[genesis]

app Scenario very plausible. Biggest abuser of "mAnE, tEnE, pon_" has to be Valee. Not sure now who wrote the above ones, but later when Valee was heavily used (post Vairamuthu break-up), those words were everywhere.

பாவம் கோவை தம்பி, பாவம் வாலி. இதுக்கு முன்னாடி வந்த, பின்னாடி வந்த கோவை தம்பி படங்களில் "மானே தேனே" அந்த அளவுக்கு இருக்குற மாதிரி தெரியல.... வாலி கூட ரஹ்மானுக்கு எழுதும் போது "மானே தேனே" அதிகமா இல்லை.... எனக்கென்னமோ தயாரிப்பாளர், பாடலாசிரியர் எல்லாரும் வேற யாரையோ அனுசரிச்சு போற மாதிரி தோணுது..... வேற யாரா இருக்கும்? பிடிபட மாட்டேங்குதே!!??

[genesis]

I was just listening to Hello FM and they have a VM special going on for sometime. Just before playing national award winning "Veeti Veru Vaasam" song, VM mentioned the first line "Vetti Veru Vasam Vedalaipulla Nesam" had been taken from some Srilankan folk song. IR had used these words for the beginning of the mettu and VM just developed rest of the song. (So there is some truth in what IR told to the press about VM getting national award for this song).

On the same lines, I do not have to think much to guess who wrote "Maane Thene Kattipudi"

[al_gates]

வாலி கூட ரஹ்மானுக்கு எழுதும் போது "மானே தேனே" அதிகமா இல்லை....

That is because Wally, sorry Vaali, learnt English by then.

App Sir,
I promise this is my last digression to cricket You didnt mention the last over of the NZ innings. Lance Cairns hit Madanlal to deep wicket and Srikkanth waiting for a while under the skier before dropping it. Gavaskar was disappointed with the outcome. Next ball was a replay with Cairns lofting it, Srikkanth reaching out too early and the ball bounced over him and into the fence. Gavaskar was really pissed now and sent Srikkanth marching to fine leg in order to hide him from the ball. However, Cairns swung the next ball high to fine leg and this time Srikkanth finally caught it after a long wait. There were several kgs of relief on his face once he safely caught it.

Maybe you and your collegemates missed this incident as this could have happened in your lunch time